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Infibeam Avenues Buys Cardpay To Boost B2B Payments

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In the announcement , the companies said the acquisition will help Ahmedabad-based Infibeam offer better B2B payment services. Cardpay , based in Bengaluru, India, offers a spending management platform to corporations under the brand name “Grit.” “Payments-led lending is the new growth mantra for us.

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Visa, Mastercard, Amex Stake Their Bets On B2B

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When the B2B payments industry began considering what to expect for 2018, commercial cards weren’t often on the radar. Cards are still expected to account for only a minor fraction of B2B payments volume in accounts payable by the end of the year, after all, with ACH gaining traction as the go-to ePayments rail for corporate payers.

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2018 Recap: B2B Payments Innovation Welcomes Bank-FinTech Collabs — And Beyond

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In B2B payments and corporate finance, it wasn’t only bank-FinTech collaboration that made headlines in 2018. Here are some of the biggest stories of B2B payments collaboration from 2018. Last June, the company announced a partnership with B2B eCommerce platform Handshake to further that initiative.

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B2B FinTech Goes High-Tech For Funding

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This week, however, venture capitalists in the B2B FinTech space went global, hitting Australia, the U.S., Once again, it was a healthy dose of modest funding rounds for a varied B2B FinTech space, and we break down all of the $45.6 France and India. million raised. Commercial Cards. Corporate Travel. TripActions. Lighthouse.io.

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Virtual Cards Help Companies Manage Spend In Real Time

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Digital B2B payments innovations as diverse as machine learning (ML) automation, cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and virtual cards are gaining unprecedented traction as businesses move to build sustainable B2B payments operations outside of th e office. Around The B2B Payments For The Virtual Workforce World.

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Mastercard, EedenBull Extend Into Asia Pacific

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Mastercard said as a result of the expanded partnership in Europe, Mastercard will support EedenBull’s commercial cards platform to banks seeking to tap into Asia Pacific’s B2B payments market. Last month, PYMNTS reported EedenBull rolled out its commercial card platform to banks to take advantage of improved B2B payment capabilities.

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H1 2018 — The Best Of B2B (So Far)

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The B2B payments market is already enjoying a solid year, thanks to some of the biggest names in payments and FinTech taking a solid stance in the space. PYMNTS takes a look back at some of the most popular B2B payments stories of the year so far. Mastercard Sent Steps Into B2B. Visa Buys Fraedom.

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